19/25 I once knew a man of great fortune, with many depending on him, who vented his ill-temper and petty annoyances on almost everyone to whom he spoke. He was so fully aware of this failing that he at once, in confessing it to a mutual friend, shed tears of regret. Yet he was a millionaire man of business, and had a strong will which might have been directed to a cure. All peevish, fretful and talkative, or even complaining people, should be induced to seriously study this subject. No one doubts that a negro who believes in sorcery, if told that if he uttered an oath, _Voodoo_ would fall upon him and cause him to waste away, would never swear again. |